Daily Archives: May 4, 2006

Discovery Educators made a GIANT splash this past week at Sea World when they put their best foot (or should we say water shoe) forward at our first West Coast Regional Conference. 50 educators from 4 states gathered for a huge meeting of the minds! We started off as individuals and left united as a

A couple new additions to the unitedstreaming and Google Earth presentation. Download us_ge_may_4.ppt Plus, Karen Seddon (Field Manager, South FL) gave me a great resource from Google Earth master David Douglass. Check out http://www.gelessons.com. Awesome resources! Thanks, Karen and David!

Congratulations to Julie Burchardt of Douglas Elementary School, Watertown School District! I recently asked Wisconsin DEN members to complete a Zoomerang survey giving me their input on their needs and insights. This survey was completed by approximately 70 Wisconsin DEN members by the deadline, May 3rd. As promised, one participant’s name was drawn to win

Tip #4: The Great Debate- Hyperlinking vs. Embedding As we all know, unitedstreaming has so many great videos and video clips that we could use daily in our lessons. The question is – What can we do with the videos after we find them? Did you know that you can create a hyperlink to a

If you are ever doing training or would like to add a Discovery logo to an image from our library on unitedstreaming feel free to access the Discovery Logo Library. The username is logos and the password is logos. At the site you will find all of the DEN logos as well as the Discovery

From Michelle Adams (Field Manager, VA/WV) As we all know, unitedstreaming has so many great videos and video clips that we could use daily in our lessons. The question is – What can we do with the videos after we find them? Did you know that you can create a hyperlink to a video in

As we all know, unitedstreaming has so many great videos and video clips that we could use daily in our lessons. The question is – "What can we do with the videos after we find them?" Did you know that you can create a hyperlink to a video in a word document? You can also

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Many of you may have realized, to your chagrin, that the Xtranormal site has been shut down as of July 31st. I searched for alternatives and found Digital Films . I have only been playing around with it for a few hours, but have not noticed a feature that allows characters to speak typed text

In this installment of One Idea With: Discovery Education Senior Vice President Scott Kinney interviews Dr. Latoya Dixon and Dr. Mike Waiksnis, Co-Principals of the Rowan-Salisbury School System’s Knox Middle School in North Carolina. Drs. Dixon and Waiksnis’ One Idea focuses on how their different personal and leadership styles support their work as co-principals. Watch the video below to learn

One of my least favorite trends in education is hatin’ on PowerPoint. Visual presentation in and of itself isn’t the problem! A quick glance of Google search results for “PowerPoint meme” sums up the anti-PowerPoint narrative sweeping the web: PowerPoints can be dreadfully boring, and relying solely on teacher-centered instruction is problematic. That being